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Jan Mieszkowski

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Professor of German & Comparative Literature at Reed College. Recently finished a book about the languages of botany.

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 6h

A masterpiece of literature is never anything more than a dictionary in disorder.
–Jean Cocteau

Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Sep 3

Cake en abyme.

Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Jul 19

I taught this about 10 years ago. I think it went over quite well, as I recall.

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Jun 23

Pleased to have a piece in this new volume.

Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Jun 2

"He thought that he had learned patience, but he had only lost impatience."
–Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion

Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Apr 12

Spent most of the day in an online symposium – 6 excellent papers and a cool roundtable discussion of texts by Hemingway and Hans Christian Andersen.

Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Feb 27

Exactly. I tell them: "Overreading? We aren't even close to getting out of the realm of underreading!"

Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Feb 27

What are students taught in high school such that they worry that the most basic exegetical move may constitute "overreading"?

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Feb 15

(There's a newer version in Crises of the Sentence, but this should probably do.)

What's in a Slogan? | Mediations | Journal of the Marxist Literary Group

Jan Mieskowski traces the reception of the slogan as a form in Marxist criticism from Marx and Engels through Lenin, Luxembourg, and Lukács. These slogans are…

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Feb 12

Don’t you know that "No" is the wildest word we consign to Language?
–Emily Dickinson

Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Jan 30

I dwell in Possibility -
A fairer House than Prose -
More numerous of Windows -
Superior - for Doors -

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Jan 26

Book Botany

Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Jan 14

#Mood

Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Jan 14

I was going to try to guess what sort of software it might be, but then you gave it away.

Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Jan 11

Sigh.

Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Jan 8

Furcht vor der Nacht, Furcht vor der Nicht-Nacht
-Franz Kafka, 18 Okt. 1917

Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Dec 29

Recommended!

The Ruins of Nostalgia – Wesleyan University Press

New work from one of the most compelling and transformative writers of the contemporary prose poemWhat is it to feel nostalgia, to be skeptical of it yet cle...

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Dec 24

It’s a genre?

Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Dec 15

“Sound film as the limit for Kafka’s and Chaplin’s worlds.”
–Walter Benjamin

Reposted by Jan Mieszkowski

Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · Dec 9

Read Jan Mieszkowski's "Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions: The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's Der Proceß" in @mlnjournal.bsky.social on @projectmuse.bsky.social!

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muse.jhu.edu/article/945087

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Reposted by Jan Mieszkowski

Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Dec 7

icymi: Jan Mieszkowski, @janm.bsky.social, Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions:The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's Der Proceß (via Proj Muse) muse.jhu.edu/article/945087 speech acts, rescission in contracts ... @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @lpcprof.bsky.social

Project MUSE - Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions: The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's <i>Der Proceß</i>

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Dec 7

Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Nov 24

TFW you realize that the bookstore categories have passed you by.

Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Nov 19

Required seminar wear.

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · Nov 18

Reading between the lines.

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